Psychology A3 TPB

Question 1

theories of stress and addiction: theory of planned behaviour

Answer 1

-explain how people can exercise control over behaviour
-intention to change (decision-making)

Question 2

Ajzen (1991)

Answer 2

-created theory of planned behaviour

Question 3

1. personal attitudes

Answer 3

-individual’s favourable + unfavourable beliefs about behaviours
-example, favourable = i drink because i enjoy it — unfavourable = binge drinking is expensive
-balance of positive and negative judgements

Question 4

2. subjective norms

Answer 4

-‘subjective’ - persons beliefs
-formed by norms of a group, approving + disapproving behaviours
-example, alcoholic “my family are unhappy about me drinking” – less likely to drink (norm of family)

Question 5

3. perceived behavioural control

Answer 5

-how much control we believe we have over behaviour
-perception of resources - external (time), internal (resilience)
-more belief in control over behaviour, more likely to want to change

Question 6

Hagger et al. (2011)
(evaluation)

Answer 6

-found, personal attitudes, subjective norms and PBC can predict intention to limit drinking
-outcomes are exactly what the theory predicts

Question 7

a gap - Miller and Howell (2005)
(evaluation)

Answer 7

-can’t account for gap between ‘intention’ and ‘behaviour’
-gambling in teenagers, couldn’t predict reduction from intention
-can’t be used to predict behaviour or interventions

Question 8

doesn’t consider other variables - Louis et al. (2009)
(evaluation)

Answer 8

-Louis et al., 3 sources to change intention had no influence on healthy/unhealthy eating behaviours
–> stress was actual reasoning - TPB = incomplete